1. Importing candy data

candy_file <- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivethirtyeight/data/master/candy-power-ranking/candy-data.csv"
candy = read.csv(candy_file, row.names = 1)
head(candy)
##              chocolate fruity caramel peanutyalmondy nougat crispedricewafer
## 100 Grand            1      0       1              0      0                1
## 3 Musketeers         1      0       0              0      1                0
## One dime             0      0       0              0      0                0
## One quarter          0      0       0              0      0                0
## Air Heads            0      1       0              0      0                0
## Almond Joy           1      0       0              1      0                0
##              hard bar pluribus sugarpercent pricepercent winpercent
## 100 Grand       0   1        0        0.732        0.860   66.97173
## 3 Musketeers    0   1        0        0.604        0.511   67.60294
## One dime        0   0        0        0.011        0.116   32.26109
## One quarter     0   0        0        0.011        0.511   46.11650
## Air Heads       0   0        0        0.906        0.511   52.34146
## Almond Joy      0   1        0        0.465        0.767   50.34755

Q1. How many different candy types in this dataset?

nrow(candy)
## [1] 85

Q2. How many fruity candy types in the dataset?

sum(candy$fruity)
## [1] 38

2. What is your favorite candy?

candy["Twix", ]$winpercent
## [1] 81.64291

Q3. What is your favorite candy in the dataset and what is it’s winpercent value?

candy["Red vines", ]$winpercent
## [1] 37.34852

Q4. What is the winpercent value for “Kit Kat”?

candy["Kit Kat", ]$winpercent
## [1] 76.7686

Q5. What is the winpercent value for “Tootsie Roll Snack Bars”?

candy["Tootsie Roll Snack Bars", ]$winpercent
## [1] 49.6535
# install.packages("skimr")
library("skimr")
skim(candy)
Data summary
Name candy
Number of rows 85
Number of columns 12
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Column type frequency:
numeric 12
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Group variables None

Variable type: numeric

skim_variable n_missing complete_rate mean sd p0 p25 p50 p75 p100 hist
chocolate 0 1 0.44 0.50 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 ▇▁▁▁▆
fruity 0 1 0.45 0.50 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 ▇▁▁▁▆
caramel 0 1 0.16 0.37 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 ▇▁▁▁▂
peanutyalmondy 0 1 0.16 0.37 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 ▇▁▁▁▂
nougat 0 1 0.08 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 ▇▁▁▁▁
crispedricewafer 0 1 0.08 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 ▇▁▁▁▁
hard 0 1 0.18 0.38 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 ▇▁▁▁▂
bar 0 1 0.25 0.43 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 ▇▁▁▁▂
pluribus 0 1 0.52 0.50 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 ▇▁▁▁▇
sugarpercent 0 1 0.48 0.28 0.01 0.22 0.47 0.73 0.99 ▇▇▇▇▆
pricepercent 0 1 0.47 0.29 0.01 0.26 0.47 0.65 0.98 ▇▇▇▇▆
winpercent 0 1 50.32 14.71 22.45 39.14 47.83 59.86 84.18 ▃▇▆▅▂

Q6. Is there any variable/column that looks to be on a different scale to the majority of the other columns in the dataset?

winpercent - on percentage scale to 100 rather than to 1

Q7. What do you think a zero and one represent for the candy$chocolate column?

A zero means that it is not chocolate and one means that it is chocolate.

Q8. Plot histogram of winpercent values

hist(candy$winpercent)

> Q9. Is the distribution of winpercent values symmetrical?

No, it is slightly skewed to the left.

Q10. Is the center of the distribution above or below 50%?

The distribution is below 50%.

Q11. On average is chocolate candy higher or lower ranked than fruit candy?

choc <- candy$winpercent[as.logical(candy$chocolate)]
mean(choc)
## [1] 60.92153
fruit <- candy$winpercent[as.logical(candy$fruity)]
mean(fruit)
## [1] 44.11974

On average, the chocolate candy is higher ranked than fruit candy.

Q12. Is this different statistically significant?

t.test(choc, fruit)
## 
##  Welch Two Sample t-test
## 
## data:  choc and fruit
## t = 6.2582, df = 68.882, p-value = 2.871e-08
## alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
## 95 percent confidence interval:
##  11.44563 22.15795
## sample estimates:
## mean of x mean of y 
##  60.92153  44.11974

The difference is signficantly significant as the p-value is less than 0.05.

3. Overall Candy Rankings

Q13. What are the five least liked candy types in this set?

head(candy[order(candy$winpercent),], n = 5)
##                    chocolate fruity caramel peanutyalmondy nougat
## Nik L Nip                  0      1       0              0      0
## Boston Baked Beans         0      0       0              1      0
## Chiclets                   0      1       0              0      0
## Super Bubble               0      1       0              0      0
## Jawbusters                 0      1       0              0      0
##                    crispedricewafer hard bar pluribus sugarpercent pricepercent
## Nik L Nip                         0    0   0        1        0.197        0.976
## Boston Baked Beans                0    0   0        1        0.313        0.511
## Chiclets                          0    0   0        1        0.046        0.325
## Super Bubble                      0    0   0        0        0.162        0.116
## Jawbusters                        0    1   0        1        0.093        0.511
##                    winpercent
## Nik L Nip            22.44534
## Boston Baked Beans   23.41782
## Chiclets             24.52499
## Super Bubble         27.30386
## Jawbusters           28.12744

Q14. What are the top 5 all time favorite candy types out of this set?

head(candy[order(candy$winpercent, decreasing = TRUE), ], n = 5)
##                           chocolate fruity caramel peanutyalmondy nougat
## ReeseÕs Peanut Butter cup         1      0       0              1      0
## ReeseÕs Miniatures                1      0       0              1      0
## Twix                              1      0       1              0      0
## Kit Kat                           1      0       0              0      0
## Snickers                          1      0       1              1      1
##                           crispedricewafer hard bar pluribus sugarpercent
## ReeseÕs Peanut Butter cup                0    0   0        0        0.720
## ReeseÕs Miniatures                       0    0   0        0        0.034
## Twix                                     1    0   1        0        0.546
## Kit Kat                                  1    0   1        0        0.313
## Snickers                                 0    0   1        0        0.546
##                           pricepercent winpercent
## ReeseÕs Peanut Butter cup        0.651   84.18029
## ReeseÕs Miniatures               0.279   81.86626
## Twix                             0.906   81.64291
## Kit Kat                          0.511   76.76860
## Snickers                         0.651   76.67378

Q15. Make a first barplot of candy ranking based on winpercent values.

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(candy) + aes(winpercent, rownames(candy)) + geom_bar(stat = "identity")

Q16. This is quite ugly, use the reorder() function to get the bars sorted by winpercent?

ggplot(candy) + aes(winpercent, reorder(rownames(candy), winpercent)) + geom_bar(stat = "identity")

Set up color

my_cols=rep("black", nrow(candy))
my_cols[as.logical(candy$chocolate)] = "chocolate"
my_cols[as.logical(candy$bar)] = "brown"
my_cols[as.logical(candy$fruity)] = "pink"
ggplot(candy) + 
  aes(winpercent, reorder(rownames(candy),winpercent)) +
  geom_col(fill=my_cols) 

# Taking a look at pricepercent

library(ggrepel)

# How about a plot of price vs win
ggplot(candy) +
  aes(winpercent, pricepercent, label=rownames(candy)) +
  geom_point(col=my_cols) + 
  geom_text_repel(col=my_cols, size=3.3, max.overlaps = 5)
## Warning: ggrepel: 50 unlabeled data points (too many overlaps). Consider
## increasing max.overlaps

Q19. Which candy type is the highest ranked in terms of winpercent for the least money - i.e. offers the most bang for your buck?

Reese’s O Miniatures

Q20. What are the top 5 most expensive candy types in the dataset and of these which is the least popular?

ord <- order(candy$pricepercent, decreasing = TRUE)
head( candy[ord,c(11,12)], n=5 )
##                          pricepercent winpercent
## Nik L Nip                       0.976   22.44534
## Nestle Smarties                 0.976   37.88719
## Ring pop                        0.965   35.29076
## HersheyÕs Krackel               0.918   62.28448
## HersheyÕs Milk Chocolate        0.918   56.49050

Q21. Make a barplot again with geom_col() this time using pricepercent and then improve this step by step, first ordering the x-axis by value and finally making a so called “dot chat” or “lollipop” chart by swapping geom_col() for geom_point() + geom_segment().

ggplot(candy) + aes(pricepercent, reorder(rownames(candy), pricepercent)) + geom_col()

ggplot(candy) +
  aes(pricepercent, reorder(rownames(candy), pricepercent)) +
  geom_segment(aes(yend = reorder(rownames(candy), pricepercent), 
                   xend = 0), col="gray40") +
    geom_point()

# 5. Exploring correlation structure

library(corrplot)
## corrplot 0.90 loaded
cij <- cor(candy)
corrplot(cij)

> Q22. Examining this plot what two variables are anti-correlated (i.e. have minus values)?

fruity and chocolate > Q23. Similarly, what two variables are most positively correlated?

winpercent and chocolate

6 Principal Component Analysis

pca <- prcomp(candy, scale = TRUE)
summary(pca)
## Importance of components:
##                           PC1    PC2    PC3     PC4    PC5     PC6     PC7
## Standard deviation     2.0788 1.1378 1.1092 1.07533 0.9518 0.81923 0.81530
## Proportion of Variance 0.3601 0.1079 0.1025 0.09636 0.0755 0.05593 0.05539
## Cumulative Proportion  0.3601 0.4680 0.5705 0.66688 0.7424 0.79830 0.85369
##                            PC8     PC9    PC10    PC11    PC12
## Standard deviation     0.74530 0.67824 0.62349 0.43974 0.39760
## Proportion of Variance 0.04629 0.03833 0.03239 0.01611 0.01317
## Cumulative Proportion  0.89998 0.93832 0.97071 0.98683 1.00000
plot(pca$x[,1:2])

plot(pca$x[,1:2], col=my_cols, pch=16)

# Make a new data-frame with our PCA results and candy data
my_data <- cbind(candy, pca$x[,1:3])

p <- ggplot(my_data) + 
        aes(x=PC1, y=PC2, 
            size=winpercent/100,  
            text=rownames(my_data),
            label=rownames(my_data)) +
        geom_point(col=my_cols)

p

library(ggrepel)

p + geom_text_repel(size=3.3, col=my_cols, max.overlaps = 7)  + 
  theme(legend.position = "none") +
  labs(title="Halloween Candy PCA Space",
       subtitle="Colored by type: chocolate bar (dark brown), chocolate other (light brown), fruity (red), other (black)",
       caption="Data from 538")
## Warning: ggrepel: 39 unlabeled data points (too many overlaps). Consider
## increasing max.overlaps

library(plotly)
## 
## Attaching package: 'plotly'
## The following object is masked from 'package:ggplot2':
## 
##     last_plot
## The following object is masked from 'package:stats':
## 
##     filter
## The following object is masked from 'package:graphics':
## 
##     layout
ggplotly(p)
par(mar=c(8,4,2,2))
barplot(pca$rotation[,1], las=2, ylab="PC1 Contribution")

> Q24. What original variables are picked up strongly by PC1 in the positive direction? Do these make sense to you?

fruity, hard, and pluribus yes,it makes sense because a lot of candies that are fruity are hard and come in a package of more than one